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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : Jun 1999</div>
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      <b>date</b> -  Current date as date string</p>
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        <tt>dt=date()  </tt>
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          <b>dt</b>
        </tt>: a string</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    dt=date() returns a string containing the date in dd-mmm-yyyy format.</p>
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date()
 
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      <a href="getdate.htm">
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          <b>getdate</b>
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      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../utilities/timer.htm">
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          <b>timer</b>
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